Example sentences for: tantrums

How can you use “tantrums” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Other recent examples include the alleged off-camera tantrums had by Bill Clinton and Janet Reno over the belated discovery of the coffee videos, and yesterday's report about how somebody high up in the White House nearly throttled an ATF agent over the discovery that ATF was letting scads of assault weapons into the country.

  • White Heat features two of Cagney's greatest primal tantrums: in prison, when he finds out that his mother is dead and moans like a maniac; and at a chemical refinery, where he screams, "Top of the world, Ma!"

  • Unsur-prisingly, the French law shows little patience for the charming onomatopoeias which the technical people have invented for audio equipment and its tantrums, like `tweeter' and `boomer,' or `wow' and `hum.

  • Wilco, the No Depression -approved band with the strongest fan base, swings between down-home sentimentality and rock aggression: The lyrics to a new song, "Misunderstood," begin with spare piano accompaniment and local color ("You're back in your old neighborhood/ where the cigarettes taste so good") and end with feedback and tantrums ("I'd like to thank you all for nothing at all!"

  • Travolta doesn't get Clinton's famous temper tantrums, either.


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